Word: governorship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This political climate was responsible, Carter explained, for the tone of J. P. Coleman's campaign for the governorship in 1964. Coleman, recently appointed justice for the U. S. Fifth Circuit Court, had "stuck his neck out for Kennedy in 1960," Carter said, and "got it chopped...
What has happened in Virginia is that Holton, rallying the state G.O.P. from long hibernation, is making a spirited attempt to take over the governorship from Democrat Albertis S. Harrison Jr., who is barred by state law from succeeding himself. Though Helton's official opponent is Lieutenant Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr., 50, his most potent adversary is U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, 78, the aged boss and personification of Virginia politics...
Godwin's neck is out. As a state senator, he led the Byrd machine's "massive resistance" campaign against school in tegration in 1959 and 1960, and has faithfully supported segregationist, budget-cutting legislation. However, since his election to the lieutenant-governorship in 1961, he has been carefully cultivating a more moderate image. Last year, with an eye to the Statehouse, Godwin campaigned vigorously for Lyndon Johnson while most Byrd stalwarts either sat on their hands or roundly supported Barry Goldwater. Godwin maintains that his earlier advocacy of segregated schools gave Virginians a "breathing period" in which...
...almost certain to run for a third term, and Movie Actor Ronald Reagan, the state's fast-rising conservative Republican. Brown and Reagan are both the favorites for nomination within their respective parties. Yet neither, it turns out, ranks as his party's strongest candidate for the governorship...
...come until next June, at the Democratic convention. But it is interesting that Collins' chief for has chosen the North Harvard issue on which to criticize him. And if say, former Attorney General Edward or Senate President Maurice Donahue (although these two men will most likely for the governorship), or former Kennedy aides Kenneth O'Donnell or Lawrence O'Brien, or even former Lieutenant Governor Francis X. Bellotti, start having audible opinions on the North Harvard situation, the implication will be unmistakable that they also consider Collins vulnerable on this point...